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Post by mikef6 on Oct 22, 2022 15:08:04 GMT
Please recommend to me a good - preferably free - pop-up ad blocker. I am being constantly spammed by McAfee (or posing as McAfee) over the last couple of days. There is even a McAfee ad in the banner display above where I'm typing at the moment. When they pop-up they block text and the scroll bar. Click them off and they pop right back on. I have Windows 10 and hoped Microsoft Defender would take care of it but hasn't. Clearing notifications will stop them for a while but they come back.
Any assistance will be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks everyone.
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Post by alpha128 on Oct 22, 2022 15:24:27 GMT
What browser are you using?
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 22, 2022 16:13:12 GMT
What browser are you using? Edge and my wife prefers Chrome. It is happening on both.
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Post by alpha128 on Oct 22, 2022 16:50:15 GMT
What browser are you using? Edge and my wife prefers Chrome. It is happening on both. In Chrome check your settings as follows: - Click the three dots on the upper right
- Click Settings
- Choose Privacy and Security from the left
- Scroll down and select Site Settings
- Scroll down to the Content section and click on Pop-ups and redirects
- Make sure the radio button for Don't allow sites to send pop-ups or use redirects is selected
If there is a site you need to have pop-ups for, you can enable it with Customized behaviors and leave the Default Behavior at "Don't allow". Edge is a Chromium based browser, so the instructions for it should be similar. I don't have Edge on this computer so I can't tell you the exact steps right now. If your Default Behavior is already set to "Don't allow", then you may have some malware installed on your computer that is generating the pop-ups. In that case, run a full virus scan on your system. Hope that helps!
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Post by shadrack on Oct 23, 2022 18:02:12 GMT
"uBlock Origin" is pretty much the gold standard ad blocker, and it's free. I've only used it on Chrome and Firefox, but apparently it's available for Edge too.
When you go looking for it, beware of copy cats with "ublock" in their name ("ublock pro", 'ublock ad blocker", etc.)
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Post by shadrack on Oct 23, 2022 18:27:43 GMT
Edge and my wife prefers Chrome. It is happening on both. In Chrome check your settings as follows: - Click the three dots on the upper right
- Click Settings
- Choose Privacy and Security from the left
- Scroll down and select Site Settings
- Scroll down to the Content section and click on Pop-ups and redirects
- Make sure the radio button for Don't allow sites to send pop-ups or use redirects is selected
If there is a site you need to have pop-ups for, you can enable it with Customized behaviors and leave the Default Behavior at "Don't allow". Edge is a Chromium based browser, so the instructions for it should be similar. I don't have Edge on this computer so I can't tell you the exact steps right now. If your Default Behavior is already set to "Don't allow", then you may have some malware installed on your computer that is generating the pop-ups. In that case, run a full virus scan on your system. Hope that helps! I'm not sure that's going to help. Pop-up blockers only work on content that creates a new WINDOW that exists separate from the main browser window. These were big back in the day:
... but that's not how most modern pop-up ads work. They create an "inline pop-up" which isn't technically a separate window, so it isn't caught by pop-up blockers. Like this:
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 25, 2022 15:39:56 GMT
Edge and my wife prefers Chrome. It is happening on both. In Chrome check your settings as follows: - Click the three dots on the upper right
- Click Settings
- Choose Privacy and Security from the left
- Scroll down and select Site Settings
- Scroll down to the Content section and click on Pop-ups and redirects
- Make sure the radio button for Don't allow sites to send pop-ups or use redirects is selected
If there is a site you need to have pop-ups for, you can enable it with Customized behaviors and leave the Default Behavior at "Don't allow". Edge is a Chromium based browser, so the instructions for it should be similar. I don't have Edge on this computer so I can't tell you the exact steps right now. If your Default Behavior is already set to "Don't allow", then you may have some malware installed on your computer that is generating the pop-ups. In that case, run a full virus scan on your system. Hope that helps! Thanks for this lead. It worked on Edge but not on Chrome. The Chrome settings were a little different and wanted the URL of sites sending the pop-ups. It turned out that the URL on the non-stop McAfee ads was, surprise, a malware site. In addition to McAfee they were starting to push porn sites on us. I entered the URL but the pop-ups just ignored it and came through anyway. Result: we have abandoned using Chrome altogether. Maybe deleting Chrome and re-installing it would be the solution. Thanks again.
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 25, 2022 15:42:32 GMT
"uBlock Origin" is pretty much the gold standard ad blocker, and it's free. I've only used it on Chrome and Firefox, but apparently it's available for Edge too.
When you go looking for it, beware of copy cats with "ublock" in their name ("ublock pro", 'ublock ad blocker", etc.)
Thank you. I appreciate the tip.
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Post by alpha128 on Oct 25, 2022 16:18:54 GMT
Result: we have abandoned using Chrome altogether. Maybe deleting Chrome and re-installing it would be the solution. Thanks again. You're welcome. I'm glad you found a solution that works for you. You may as well uninstall Chrome. I would recommend a full virus scan just in case one of the pop-ups was able to install something on your system.
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 25, 2022 17:40:08 GMT
Result: we have abandoned using Chrome altogether. Maybe deleting Chrome and re-installing it would be the solution. Thanks again. You're welcome. I'm glad you found a solution that works for you. You may as well uninstall Chrome. I would recommend a full virus scan just in case one of the pop-ups was able to install something on your system. Will do. Much obliged.
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